Jurors who heard the biggest gang trial in recent Chicago history have convicted the core leadership of the Hobos.

USA: Police have charged a man with trespassing, public drunkenness, and indecent exposure after he was caught on a neighbour’s Pennsylvania farm in the nude, drinking beer among pigs.

Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the US border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the US — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximise profits.

A drug kingpin in Mexico is being named as Chicago’s public enemy No 1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn’t been used since the 1930s.